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PURPOSE AND HISTORY:
Multicriteria decision aid is an important branch of Operational
Research. Beyond the exchanges and meetings which already exist by means
of the international conferences and the publications in the scientific
journals, the objectives of the working group are the following:
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to contribute to the development, at a European level, of
an original way of thinking in the field of multicriteria decision aiding;
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to allow each member of the group to make to others methodological,
theoretical or applied results, to submit its own work and thoughts to
the critical discussion of the group and also facilitate some collaborations;
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to develop multicriteria aid for decisions by facilitating
contacts with every people interested in the subject and by stimulating
continuity and progress in exchanges and work;
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to keep the group alive and open by means of bi-annual meetings
which must not be mini-conferences but real meetings favourable to exchanges
and to emergence of news ideas.
The working group was created at EURO I (Brussels, 1975).
Since that time, two meetings are help each year, in Spring and Autumn.
The 44 meetings have been organised by 14 different countries. In the year
2000, the 50th meeting at Cerisy (France) cellebrated the Group's 25th
Anniversary.
CO-ORDINATOR:
Prof. Bernard Roy, LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine,
Place du Maréchal De Lattre de Tassigny, F-75775 Paris Cédex
16, France. Tel: (33) (0) 1 44 05 42 88, Fax: (33) (0) 1 44 05 40 91, E-mail:
roy@lamsade.dauphine.fr
NEWSLETTER: edited twice a year by Jose Figueira,
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Departamento de Engenharia e Gestao, Office: 2N818,
IST - Taguspark, Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, 2780 - 990 Porto Salvo, Portugal; e-mail :
figueira@ist.utl.pt
WEB PAGE URL: http://www.inescc.pt/~ewgmcda,
maintained by Luis Dias, INESC Coimbra, e-mail: LDias@inescc.pt
NUMBER OF MEMBERS:
Approximately 300. In 1975, the group consisted of
29 members divided into 5 different countries. Among the present members,
42 were already members in 1980. At this period, 23 countries were represented.
During these last years, each meeting induces 5 to 20 new members (with
an average of 13).
Members directory
How to join the EURO Working Group Multicriteria Aid
for Decisions:
1) Send an e-mail to Jose
Figueira (with a copy to myself (Luis
Dias) if you want to be included in the directory), or
2) Participate in the next meeting of the Group (this
will automatically include you as a member).
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